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In today’s (free to read) newsletter: How you ask a poll question can yield a big difference in the answers you get back. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

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The @rcfp.org has published a letter calling on law enforcement to respect the rights of journalists covering protests, which is especially important today. @nenpa.bsky.social is among the signatories.

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This is a holy shit article. Fragile man asks AI if he can safely leap off rooftop. ChatGPT responded that, if Mr. Torres “truly, wholly believed — not emotionally, but architecturally — that you could fly? Then yes. You would not fall.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

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The board of the Fulbright program appears to have entirely resigned, accusing the State Department of illegally canceling scholarships "based mainly on research topics": www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

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I wish every story about this included the point that California statutes specifically _protect_ journalists in these situations. The people shooting journalists are breaking the law, not enforcing the law. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_....

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Kinsley gaffe

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Not an auspicious beginning. Bondi Justice Department submits response in Newsom v Trump responding to California's request for a Temporary Restraining Order And yes this is page 3

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Wow. New Quinnipiac poll finds Trump's approval at 38-54. And note this: Trump approval on immigration: 43-54 Approval on his deportations: 40-56 Can we say Trump isn't winning on this issue yet?

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I said earlier today that I agreed with @sulliview.bsky.social that a suspension made sense. This is a gross overreaction from the company that settled a bogus lawsuit with Trump earlier this year. Just nauseating.

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The Associated Press has asked the DC to review this order en banc. Good! Rao and Katsas are wrong on the facts, the law, and the balance of interests. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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NEW: A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected US travelers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). www.wired.com/story/airlin...

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In new breaking research from @prri.org, we find that 3 in 4 Americans oppose Trump's military parade. prri.org/spotlight/mi...

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Trying to remember the last chief of US intelligence agencies who publicly advanced a conspiracy theory that the nation's "elite" are plotting to start a nuclear war because they have shelters.

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Important read.

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This piece by @lizagoitein.bsky.social, one of the nation's leading experts on federal control of the National Guard, is a must read if you want to know why President Trump's deployments in LA are legally questionable. www.justsecurity.org/114282/memor...

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“In a nutshell, the purge sought to exclude the diversity the U.S. military once celebrated.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

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This thread from @bxroberts.org is worth your time 👇👇

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It’s also notable that this DOJ doesn’t allow lawyers to give their best legal advice if their professional judgment differs from what the political leadership wants to do. Another reason that we can’t have any confidence that DOJ is acting in good faith when it obtains indictments.

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Elon Musk’s team at the U.S. DOGE Service and allies in the Trump administration ignored White House communications experts worried about potential security breaches when DOGE personnel installed Musk’s Starlink internet service in the complex this year www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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REUTERS: Tesla is trying to stop certain self-driving crash data becoming public. "Information is confidential" www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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SCOTUS' shadow docket order granting DOGE unprecedented access to Americans' social security records before the merits of the case are decided is infuriating. Here is the order and I'll post some key portions from Justice Jackson's outstanding dissent below. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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“That Harvard is under threat is cause for national, even international, alarm.The war on this great pillar of American civilization appears to be driven as much by coarse populist vindictiveness as by the unconservative philistinism that characterizes the MAGA platoons.” www.wsj.com/opinion/is-h...

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Veteran FBI agent resigns after being told to expect to be demoted. His offense? Being friends with a Trump critic. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...

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The really important thing in ABC News' report is that the US attorney handling the matter submitted his resignation as the indictment of Abrego Garcia went forward, indicating that something seriously unethical has occurred... again. abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...

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"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."

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Quite a twist in the long saga of UFO conspiracy theories— the Pentagon invented some of them as cover for secret programs, beginning with that old standby of Area 51. Bravo WSJ. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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The assault on student rights to free speech continues unabated Student newspapers at high school & college levels are being suppressed by thin-skinned administrators afraid of criticism by their students It’s time to show up and speak up www.purdueexponent.org/campus/gener...

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Someone should tell Trump that Elon would feel very owned if he fully funded USAID and the CDC.

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"A national network that pledges to coordinate, mobilize, and support one another when any single institution comes under attack..." www.standtogetherhighered.org

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New: A Guatemalan man who said he was deported to Mexico despite fearing he would be persecuted there was flown back to the United States on Wednesday after a judge ordered the Trump administration to facilitate his return, his lawyer said. www.reuters.com/world/us/gua...

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Boasberg: "Absent this relief, the Government could snatch anyone off the street, turn him over to a foreign country, and then effectively foreclose any corrective course of action." An unassailable point. The fact that the U.S. government is fighting this tells you what you need to know.

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What tax consequences would follow from politically motivated revocation of 501(c)(3) status for a university or other nonprofits? How can institutions push back against a potential presidential attack? [Dale, Hemel, and Manny via Caron/TaxProf]

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Wow. Judge Boasberg orders the Trump administration to come up with concrete plans to allow all the migrants renditioned to a Salvadoran gulag a way to challenge their renditions in court, declaring them illegal:

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"One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism." Literally putting an intern in charge. Compare/contrast with the prior director

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Imagine how the people who work in that office feel. Demoralized, disrespected, and stunned by this admission that Trump values their work so little that he thinks a 22 year old with no experience can oversee it.

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Nothing to see here! A 26-year old fever swamp right-winger, anti-Leo Frank, pro-Great Replacement theory, and pro-Putin, is now the Pentagon press secretary. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

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Math is hard... but Google is free.

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This is the woman who just got promoted to press secretary for the Department of Defense “Proud to be an enemy of globalist Ukraine”

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I implore people to think about what Memorial Day means, and then think about…this

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“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

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Sophisticated piece on all the risks that come when law firms accept a Trump shakedown.

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The challenges of AI are too urgent for Congress to preempt state law, argue CAIDP’s Marc Rotenberg, Merve Hickok, and Christabel Randolph. States are already leading, they say; will federal lawmakers support them, or obstruct their progress?

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House Republican leaders worked through dawn on Wednesday to win over holdouts for their sweeping domestic policy bill to deliver President Trump’s agenda. If passed, the legislation is projected to cause around 10 million people to become uninsured, the Congressional Budget Office said.

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Important to remember that these are competitive grants awarded to Harvard because experts deemed it the best place to conduct research to serve the American people. Trump is cancelling research benefiting the American people for his own perceived political gain.

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As I wrote for TIME this morning, the recent ruling in the NC Supreme Court election contest reaffirms ahead of 2026 that while federal courts have let us down on voting rights a lot lately, they won't be used as tools to subvert election outcomes after the fact: time.com/7287238/nort...

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The CBO says the current GOP budget bill would add so much to the national debt that it could force nearly $500 billion in cuts to Medicare beginning in 2026.

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